We have engaged the (mini)Borg

Here the challenge was to re-create familiar starships from the Lego universe at a small scale.
In this view a Galaxy and Sovereign class face off against a Borg cube.

Lego Star Trek: Sabre Class starship

This Lego version of an esoteric Star Trek vessel called the Sabre Class is not an act of creative misuse per se, but a custom build based on Star Trek schematics and renderings.

Juxtaposed here is the Lego model along with official images of the original ship. Of course, the Lego version is taller, so you can fit minifigures inside.

Lego Hacker made this at age 11, and his sister helped with the rendering in Photoshop.

Engines and broccoli

Don't forget to eat your vegetables when you're done working on that engine!

Note how the diagonal parts of the engine's "belt" shouldn't fit together, but do.

Lego horse hacks

A half-dozen horses become a single hydra-horse, thanks to filling the gaps meant to be occupied by a rider with a long connector brick.

Armored equine helmets, meanwhile, can be attached to create colorful pentagonal sea creatures.

Fire spiral

Plenty of Lego sets include these flickering tongues of flame, but they are never combined together to make a larger structure.

To make this fire spiral at age six, Lego Hacker noticed that the tiny plugs at the base of each flame--perhaps leftover flashing from the molds in which the flames were cast--just happen to fit snugly between two of the flame's curved jags.


Click enough of these together in this way and you have a blazing spiral that can protect or confound Lego beings.

Pike puzzle

The pikes have little notches that can be snapped together.

Again, this is not the way the Lego company intended the pikes to be assembled, but that's what art and code hackers do: misuse their tools to create something new.

Slithering snakes

I contributed this example--again four pieces that combine to produce an unusual symmetry and stability.